Gaddafi finally buried; almost a week after his body was put on show in a storage freezer

MISRATA - Libyan officials have said that deposed dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a top aide were buried at dawn yesterday at a secret location, deep in the Sahara Desert, with a few relatives and officials in attendance. With their Western allies uneasy that Col Gaddafi was roughed up and shot after his capture last Thursday, National Transitional Council (NTC) forces had put his body on show inside a storage freezer while they argued over what to do with it, until the decay forced them to shut the doors on Monday. "The process leading to his burial is taking place now," NTC official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters by telephone. "Only two trusted people were assigned to this secret mission. These are not guards, but very trusted NTC people." Final Muslim prayers were said over the bodies of the former leader and his son by Col Gaddafi's personal cl...